Managed Cloud Services for Enterprise Collaboration

Managed cloud services can accelerate your business by allowing you to transform ideas into marketable products and services with greater speed. Cloud can provide nearly limitless scalability, enabling your business to grow without time and resource intensive IT build-outs.

Cloud can transform the economics of your IT -- from capital-intensive, to pay-as-you-go. Service level agreements guarantee the capabilities you need, when you need them. Costs are tiered and metered to accurately reflect your requirements and usage.

All applications, including legacy, run more efficiently and sustainably with greater utilization of the underlying infrastructure.

Cloud can make new business models possible and unlock revenue potential. Companies can enter new markets, respond more quickly to changing customer needs, collaborate more effectively to drive innovation and business value.

Collaboration Use-Case Scenario

• Global organizations face real collaboration challenges. Employee expertise is distributed across headquarters and regional and branch locations around the world. Technology and travel limit responsiveness to customer needs. Cultural differences hamper internal teamwork and organizational agility.
• Enterprise-wide collaboration is particularly difficult to improve due to the communications silos created by existing infrastructure and disparate technology environments.
• Rich collaboration enables organizations to extend services reach and improve relationships with customers. Poor collaboration can result in customer dissatisfaction and competitive exposure.

Role for Cloud Technologies

• Cloud network-based collaboration strategies enable employees at all levels of the organization to connect and collaborate.
• Collaboration services built in the Cloud can also integrate with and enhance business processes and applications.

Application Considerations

• Proper collaboration architecture design relies on a thorough understanding of technology, people, and processes. The architecture must also be able to integrate with the desired business applications and processes.
• High-quality collaboration experiences require end-to-end solutions.

However, Cloud is neither an instantaneous nor simple transformation, but can be adopted in a controlled and pragmatic way. Cloud involves new technologies, new service and deployment models, and new IT skills sets and processes. Migration of legacy applications to Cloud can be a real challenge. That said, legacy platforms can co-exist with Cloud deployments and be migrated only as appropriate.

Moreover, Cloud does not always offer the best business solution. Some Cloud solutions limit the ability to customize functionality or cannot guarantee quality of service. Some workloads may have stringent compliance or technical requirements that demand other approaches.

Organizations will need to determine where Cloud applications are most appropriate, based on workload-specific requirements around cost, risk, and performance.

Vehicle Number Plate Making Business

Vehicle Number Plate Making Business

Each rider either vehicle or motor vehicle must complete the requirements in driving. One of completeness for these vehicles is the Private Number Plates. Today, with the increasing number of users passing vehicles on the road, the vehicle license plate making business has never deserted from the request. Most customers order a license plate that is different from the standard size specified.

The size of motorcycle license plates with the standard size is 10cm x 25cm and to a standard size car number plates are 40cm x 13.5cm. The longer, the variation of manufacture of vehicle number plates is more diverse, whether it's size or model. It was adapted to the model used vehicles that would seem more fashionable. Raw materials used in the manufacture of vehicle number plates in the form of aluminum and acrylic. Supplies of raw materials and prices:

Number Plate Making Process

The process of making license plate is very simple. Initially set up some prints (in the form of letters and numbers) with a variety of variations and models. Then consumers are welcome to choose the model of writing, the size and material desired. After modeling, materials and sizes specified, and then cut the sheet material as needed. Then do the printing plate number by putting printed below and hit the aluminum sheet using a hammer. The surface is coated with a hammer soft material so as not to damage the material but only gives a yield stress relief or contour shape of the letter / number. This was done until the entire desired inscription printed clearly.

The last process is painting. Paint colors adapted to the conditions of motor vehicles whether private vehicles, public or government agencies. The color plate of the vehicle in force in Indonesia:

    Motor vehicles are not common and rental of motor vehicles: a black base color with white writing

    General motor vehicle: Basic color yellow with black writing

    Government-owned motor vehicles: a red base color with white writing

    Motor vehicles Foreign Diplomatic Corps: White base color with black writing.

    Motor vehicles Diplomatic Corps Operational Staff Foreign Country: The basic color of black with white writing and consists of five numbers and code numbers are printed smaller countries with sub-section format

    Motor vehicle dealers to transport (shipping from assembly to a dealer or dealer to dealer): Basic color white with red writing

As for the plate made from acrylic. Sablonase first performed on the acrylic material. After it is coated with aluminum or acrylic material is only as a cover of aluminum material that has been printed. The purpose of such combinations is to enhance your vehicle number plates which are printed. After the license plate is formed, made perforation for mounting screws on the vehicle.

Document revision history, in-cell dropdown, and more new features in Google Apps

Over the last few weeks, we launched some exciting new updates that make it even easier for business users to create and collaborate on to Google Sites, Google documents, and Google spreadsheets.

• In Google documents, we launched a new revision history interface which lets you easily see what changes have been made to a document. Changes are color-coded based on each collaborator, so it’s clear who did what. You can click on a time stamp in the right column to see what changes were made at a given time, or use the arrow keys to quickly scan through many revisions. To learn more about revisions history, see the Google Docs blog.

• We’ve also made it easier to anticipate the changes other real-time co-editors are about to make in Google documents. Text that another editor is selecting is highlighted, so you’ll know if someone may be about to delete or drag that block of text.

• In addition we’ve recently added six new web fonts in Google documents: Droid Serif, Droid Sans, Calibri, Cambria, Corsiva, and Consolas. These web fonts are stored in the cloud rather than on your particular computer, so you aren’t limited to the set of common fonts that most people have installed on their computers.

• In Google Spreadsheets, we’ve improved the import function with more options for your imported data. For example, when importing a .csv file, you can create a whole new spreadsheet, append data to the current sheet, add a new sheet to your existing spreadsheet or even replace your entire spreadsheet with the data you’re uploading. We also added a preview pane so you can see how the imported data will look in your spreadsheet.

• Google spreadsheets also now has in-cell dropdown and data validation. This makes it easy to constrain the values of an individual cell to a specific range or list, reducing unnecessary typing and data entry errors. For example, if you are planning a business trip, you can limit the options in the travel destination column to only allow a certain set of city names.

• You can create dropdown options in individual cells through the data validation tool, which lets you pull data from a range of cells in your sheet or by creating a custom list. For more information on data validation and in-cell dropdowns in Google spreadsheets, head to the Google Docs blog.

• Lastly, Google spreadsheets now offers new printing options including selection printing, which lets you print a highlighted area in your spreadsheet, and the option to not print the cell gridlines if you want to save on ink.

• Organizing your site’s hierarchy of pages is an important part of using Google Sites. To make it faster and easier to change the structure of your site, now you can drag and drop pages to change the hierarchy.

As with all updates in Google Apps, users get access to new features each time they open their browsers, and improvements roll out to customers with no need for administrators to manage patches or install software. Stay tuned for more updates to Google Docs and Google Sites.

Posted by Ronald Ho, Google Docs Product Manager

Reaching for the top spot? "Estimated Top Impressions" now available in the Bid Simulator

A year ago, we launched the Bid Simulator, a feature that allows you to see how different keyword-level bids may have impacted your advertising results. Using data from the past seven days, the bid simulator re-calculates the number of clicks and impressions your ad could have received with different maximum CPC bids.

Today we’re announcing a new metric in Bid Simulator, “Estimated Top Impressions,” which shows you how many times your ad appeared above the search results in the past seven days and how this metric could have changed had you used different keyword level maximum CPC bids.

Access the Bid Simulator by clicking the icon next to your maximum CPC bid.

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Whether you carefully manage a handful of valuable keywords or simply want users to see your ad as often as possible, Estimated Top Impressions can be a useful metric. Ads that appear above the search results are more visible to users and tend to receive more clicks than ads that appear along the right side of the search results page.

Let's look at an example of how to use the Estimated Top Impressions column:

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In this table, the current maximum CPC bid of $1.07 captures most of the impressions that a higher bid of $1.93 could have captured (7,520 vs. 7,930). However, when we look at the ‘Estimated Top Impressions’ column, we see that the current bid of $1.07 only captures a fraction of the top impressions (4,780 vs. 6,380). Increasing the bid to $1.93 would have placed the ad at the top of the search results page for many more queries, resulting in more users seeing the ad and clicking through to the site (591 vs 662).

If one of your goals is to appear in the top position and you’ve been focusing on the ‘average position’ of your ad to gauge how prominently it’s displayed to users, Estimated Top Impressions may be a better metric for you to focus on. While average position indicates where your ad is appearing in relation to other ads on the page, it doesn’t indicate whether your ad is appearing above the search results or on the right side of the page.

Note that past performance does not guarantee future results, and simulations will only be provided if there is enough traffic on a given keyword to conduct a meaningful analysis. Additionally, top of page impressions are counted only for impressions on Google, since other sites within the Search Network may display ads differently. Estimated Top Impressions data is currently only available in the Bid Simulator, and we’re working to incorporate this metric into more AdWords reports.

For an in-depth look at bidding, check out this tutorial from Hal Varian, the Google Chief Economist: Bidding Strategy Overview.

Posted by Nathania Lozada, Inside AdWords crew

Bantayan Island - Travel Idea for Family Travel

During holiday time, there are a lot of families consider to go to visit Bantayan Island. Based on my opinion to travel to Bantayan Island is the right decision for family travel. It is a beautiful island, in which it is not too crowded, so, it is a best place to enjoy your holiday with your family without any interference from the crowd.

It is suitable season to make a picnic to Bantayan island. Bantayan Island has good care for the landscaped gardens which are organized very beautiful, so that adds the convenience for the visitors who want to enjoy their holiday.

There are many coastal areas where are very suitable for sunbathing, swimming, surfing and enjoying the very pleasant weather. for me, a very memorable thing in Bantayan Island is a calm atmosphere and no trouble at all in there.

Bantayan Island is an island that has a normal temperature throughout the year. so you do not need to worry to make travel with your family to get there, because the air temperature in the Bantayan island is perfect for the comfort of our bodies.

Insight into your earnings (Part II): How smart pricing fits in

Last week, in the first half of our series designed to help you better understand your earnings, we introduced you to the ad auction for AdSense for content. To recap, eligible ads compete to appear on your pages; our ad auction determines which ads show, and how much you can potentially earn from them.

Now, let’s talk about smart pricing, a tool designed to help advertisers bid efficiently and effectively on many publishers’ ad auctions at once. Our Chief Economist, Hal Varian, explains the purpose of smart pricing, how it plays a role in the ad auction, and how it benefits the entire advertising ecosystem of publishers, advertisers, and users.

Although we aren’t able to provide detailed explanations of our algorithms, we’d like to address a common misconception and show that smart pricing isn’t intended to be a ‘punishment’ for publishers. It’s designed to increase advertiser confidence in AdSense sites by helping them set more accurate bids that reflect the business results they’re looking for. This then allows advertisers to increase their maximum bids, which ultimately helps publishers earn more in the long run.

We’ll let Hal explain the concept of smart pricing in more detail:




Finally, we’d like to take a moment to address some of the questions we’ve received about the relationship between smart pricing and the AdSense for content revenue share. Smart pricing can impact which ad wins an auction for a particular content page. However, since the revenue share is fixed for all publishers, smart pricing doesn’t impact the percentage you actually earn for a valid click. Any changes to advertiser bids as a result of smart pricing will proportionately affect the amount both Google and the publisher earn.

Thanks for following our two-part earnings series. We hope you found the content useful, and that you now have a better understanding of the factors that influence your earnings.

Posted by Arlene Lee - Inside AdSense Team

The more you know: switching to Gmail like a pro

Every day, tens of thousands of people switch from Microsoft Outlook® and other client-based software to Google Apps. To make the transition as smooth as possible, we thought we’d share some tips on using Gmail.

Embrace conversations
Emails rarely come just one at a time; they’re usually part of a larger exchange. Gmail helps you manage messages more efficiently by grouping related emails into conversations. Conversations are a collection of messages with the same subject line and other similarities. When you click to read a conversation, you'll see all of the back-and-forth email responses that happen over the course of the entire email conversation.

This makes it easier to follow the full context of a conversation, and keeps your inbox less cluttered and more organized. If you prefer a more traditional view of your Inbox, you can always turn off Conversation view so that all emails arrive individually.


Forget delete, and archive your way to “Inbox Zero”
The average corporate inbox is only 300MB, which means too many people are forced to spend way too much time managing their inbox -- deciding which email to keep, and deleting the rest. With 25GB of storage, you probably won’t ever need to delete an email again because of storage limitations. And if you thrive on clearing your inbox, simply archive your emails to clear the clutter. They’re still fully searchable in an instant!

Search to sort
You may be accustomed to sorting email to find saved messages, which is a pretty limited way to find information because you usually know what you’re looking for. Gmail uses the power of search to help you quickly find what you want. You can even use advanced search operators to search by sender, date, attachment or a variety of other attributes. Try it and you'll find some of the qualities that Google.com is known for: great accuracy and really fast search results. Search is particularly more effective than sorting when you’re looking through multiple gigabytes of email!


Labels instead of folders
While you won't find folders in Gmail, labels give you even more flexibility to organize your email. You can’t put an email into multiple folders, but you can apply multiple labels to the same message, which makes it easy to manage information that may fall into more than one category.


By clicking on a label, you can view a chronological list of all conversations that have been tagged with that label. And you can even organize labels hierarchically, using the “Nested Labels” lab. (Your administrator needs to have enabled Labs for you to access them.)

Work offline
These days you’re probably almost always connected to the Internet. But in those increasingly rare moments when you’re not, you can still access Gmail. When you’re offline, you can work in your browser to compose messages, search, organize mail, and do all of the things you're used to doing while accessing your email online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. To enable offline Gmail, go to the ‘offline’ tab in Settings, select ‘Enable’ and then save changes.

New features
As a web application, Gmail can be updated and improved without the trouble of purchasing, downloading and installing updates. This means Gmail will continually offer new functionality to help you be even more productive, like Priority Inbox, integrated voice and video chat, and labs such as Apps Search and Desktop Notifications. To stay current on new features, we encourage you to subscribe to our RSS feed for updates to the Google Apps suite.

We hope you enjoy the experience we offer -- we believe that ultimately, a fully-searchable, delete-nothing inbox makes for happy, productive people. But if you’re still not quite ready to use Gmail’s web interface, you can keep using Outlook or other clients of your choice. For more tips, check out our detailed transition documentation, and let us know what else we can do to make your move to Gmail easier in the comments below.

Posted by Rajen Sheth, Google Apps Product Manager

Tom Hulme on How to Visualize your Business Model

Tom is a Design Director at IDEO in London, where he uses the innovation and design process to develop new business opportunities. In these videos he presents a way, very similar to The Business Model Canvas, on how to visualize a business model including the elements of growth- and competitive strategy.

Related posts:
Alexander Osterwalders on the Business Model Canvas
The Evolution of the Business Model Concept

Jollo – Translation 2.0

Would you like to use several online translators at the same time? It’d be an advantage because then you wouldn’t have to visit different websites. That’s exactly what Jollo offers: an online resource where you can look for the translation of a word or a sentence up to 150 words or 1000 characters.

The online translators used by Jollo are WorldLingo, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, Yahoo Babelfish, SDL and Youdao. Another strong point of Jollo is that it also looks for the translation of the sentence in the Jollo community. These translations are made and proofread by the users of the community, which means that the translations are made by people and not automatically by a translator application.

Another advantage is that if you wish to translate a very specific sentence or word in English or your native tongue and you don’t find any convincing interpretations, you can request a translation in the Jollo community. This request will be answered by the community and the sentence will appear in the Jollo “Phrase book”. In order to ensure quality of content, users can rate the translations.

Many languages are supported by Jollo. However, the ones with greatest support are English, Chinese, German, French and Spanish.

Visit : http://www.Jollo.com

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New for the Google Display Network: Show ads related to demographic categories

In March 2009, we announced a beta test of interest-based advertising, which included remarketing and interest category marketing, to help you reach people on the Google Display Network who are most likely to be interested in your products and services.

Early results show that interest-based advertising is helping deliver better ads and offers for your potential customers, more effective campaigns for you, and higher returns for website publishers. Remarketing was recently launched to everyone, and interest category marketing has continued to grow.

To help you better reach your customers, and to give users more control over which ads they see, we're adding some new categories that will enable you to show ads that relate to demographic categories, such as age and gender. This works exactly the same way as interest category marketing works today - Google associates categories with a particular browser by looking at the types of Google Display Network sites visited and compares that information with aggregated survey data on site visitation. For example, if someone frequently visits sites that have a majority of female visitors, we may associate her browser's cookie with the “female” demographic category. With this information, you can choose to show more ads that are relevant to women as she browses sites across the Google Display Network, exactly the same way you can currently show ads related to other categories like sports or gardening.

As with interest categories, users may view and edit demographic categories or permanently opt out of receiving interest-based ads entirely with the Ads Preferences Manager. Because the interests and inferred demographics associated with a particular browser are based on recently visited sites on the Google Display Network, and not on user data, these categories may change over time. As one of a number of companies offering ads based on inferred interests and demographics, we remain committed to providing users the highest level of control and transparency.

We're still beta testing interest category marketing (including the new demographic categories), but will be working to help more advertisers run campaigns over time.

Posted by Dan Friedman, Inside AdWords crew

Threaded email or not, now it’s your users’ choice in Gmail

We didn’t build Gmail to work like all the other email options out there. We launched with a full gigabyte of storage per person (now 25 GB for business users), lightning fast search, labels instead of folders, and newer improvements like Priority Inbox to help you cope better with lots of information. While most Gmail users find that these features save lots of time, naturally there are people who want to keep using email in more familiar ways. That’s why we launched alternatives like Microsoft Outlook® synchronization, native BlackBerry® integration and IMAP support. More choice helps people move to the cloud more quickly.

Conversation view is perhaps Gmail’s most hotly debated feature. Threading enthusiasts say they spend less mental energy drawing connections between related messages and that their inboxes are much less cluttered. On the other hand, email traditionalists like many former Outlook users think conversation view just complicates something that has worked for years. Russ Midford, Senior Information Systems Engineer at Sanmina-SCI, sums it up well. “I personally prefer threaded conversations, but as an administrator who still needs to support some long-time Outlook users on Gmail, the unthreaded option is like gold.”

We really hoped everyone would learn to love conversation view, but we came to realize that it’s just not right for some people. So today we’re introducing another valuable choice. Users who prefer a traditional inbox can toggle off conversation view to see email as individual messages in chronological order. Some actions commonly associated with unthreaded email can be accomplished with searches in Gmail, so check out our tips on advanced search operators.

Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out conversation view settings to users in organizations with the “Enable pre-release features” option selected in the Google Apps control panel, and to individuals using Gmail.

Whichever side of the debate you’re on, we hope we’re continuously making Gmail more useful to you. For more information about migrating from common legacy solutions to Google Apps, see our resource pages for Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Notes®, or contact our sales team.

Join the Google Apps team for a demonstration of this feature, a recap of recent Gmail innovations, and tools to help your school or business switch to Google Apps:
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT / 6 p.m. GMT
On-demand webinar

Posted by Dong Chen, Software Engineer

Perspective

We were putting the finishing touches on the letters to our Senators and several students had just finished sealing and stamping. That's when one 14 year old boy asked me: "Where do I put the stamp?"

WebInTravel: Come see the BOOT at WebInTravel Singapore Oct 19 -22

It is not too late to book your ticket to join the BOOT and hundreds of others travel professionals at WebInTravel in Singapore (alongside ITB Asia) October 19-22. The full schedule for the event is here. Registration details here.

There is a lot of the BOOT to see at this conference. For BOOT specific sessions, I will be presenting as follows

Presentation Number 1

First up I will present and the pre-conference WITovation Entrepreneur Bootcamp at the LKC School of Business on Oct 18. I am in a session moderated by Tnooz editor Kevin May called

1130am Innovation Exchange: What's hot and what's not, what's working and what's not, and what's coming round the corner. Experts pick out the current tools and technology that are changing the landscape and predict the ones to come. On the panel are

• Andrew McGlinchey, Head of Product Management, Southeast Asia, Google South East Asia
• Brett Henry, Vice-President, Marketing, Abacus International
• Timothy O' Neil-Dunne, CTO, Lute Technologies and blogger
  
• Ross Veitch, Chief Product Officer, Wego

Presentation Number 2

On Oct 19 at Suntec I am on the opening panel with joint moderators conference organiser Yeoh Siew Hoon and Tnooz's Kevin May.

845am Hitting The C-Spot: Cross-Fire: Two teams will compete against each other to come up with the best customer insights that they believe will drive change in travel distribution and marketing.

Team 1 is

• Ram Badrinathan, General Manager-Asia Pacific & Vice President, Learning Solutions, PhoCusWright Inc.
• Morris Sim, CEO & Co-Founder, Circos Brand Karma
• Robbie Cooke, Managing Director & Group CEO, Wotif Group

Team 2 is

• The BOOT
  
• Timothy O'Neil-Dunne, CTO, Lute Technologies & Blogger, Professor Sabena
• Brett Henry, Vice President, Marketing, Abacus International

Presentation Number 3

Later on the 19th I am leading a panel.

3pm Channelling The Customer: Bridging The Chasm Between Inspiration & Transaction

Three part session.

For the opening 10 minutes I will present on new opportunities in search, inspiration and consumer engagement. Carl Griffith of Cloud View will follow with 5 minutes on "What the Consumer Wants". Then we have 35 minutes of Q&A with some of the best in online travel and search

• Martin Symes, CEO, Wego
• Sajith Sivanandan, Head of Travel, Retail & Automotive, Google South East Asia
• Olivier Dombey, Chief Information Officer, Hoteltravel.com
• Wee Hee Ling, CEO, Commonwealth Tourism Holdings
• Hrush Bhatt, Founder & Director, Cleartrip/Small World
• Josh Steinitz, CEO, NileGuide
• Mark Inkster, Managing Director, Search Alliance, Microsoft

Here is a hint of some of the questions I will put to the panel

• Can tradditional search adjust to responding to open ended questions?
• Sociograph vs Tastegraph - what role will they play in any search evolution/revolution. Which one will win? Or Both? How?
• Yen Lee of review meta-search site Uptake wrote a post "meta-search is done!long live meta-search" . In it he argued that traditional priced based meta-search was in real trouble because the business model of arbitrage between buying traffic off Google at one price and selling that same traffic to suppliers/OTAs at another price was not sustainable. What do you think? Has the cost of paid search irrevocably changed meta-search?
• Paid search on head terms is so expensive that it is arguable that search is not longer a direct response media but a brand building form of media. Is that true or is there still direct response money to be made in search?
• You are a hotel in a major Asian city (Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Bangkok). You are in a great location, have good reviews on social sites, are competitively priced and have great website. But when someone types in "hotels in [city]" into Google you are on page 4. Not surprising given that there are 500,000+ results on Google for that search term. What do you do as this hotel to get anywhere near page 1? Or do you give up on page 1 dreams and turn online marketing activity to somewhere else?

And more....

Presentation Number 4

On Oct 22 at Suntec I will be joining one of the WIT Ideas Lab sessions.

09.45 Social Media, Search, Mobile & Stuff: insights about Social Media, Search & other stuff that the Web is made up of.

• The BOOT
  
• Morris Sim, CEO & Co-Founder, Circos Brand Karma
• Brett Henry, Vice-President, Marketing and Vice-President, India, Abacus International

Four sessions, more live BOOT than ever before.

Management & Supervision: Documenting Employee Problems

A lament often heard from managers is that it is nearly impossible to discipline or terminate problem employees these days. It’s a common complaint for sure, but hardly true.

Let's face it, dealing with Employee Relations Problems is one of the toughest parts of a manager’s job. And "dealing" is the operative word as these problems rarely resolve themselves.

Most managers have no issue with terminating someone "for cause", as this usually pertains to instances of gross misconduct on company time or on company property. And though these are usually difficult situations, their resolution is mostly quick and obvious.

On the other hand, resolving performance problems or work rule infractions is not so cut and dry. In so much as these situations are disruptive and non-productive, it is understandable that managers want quick solutions; however, the prospect of embarking on a protracted Employee Relations Process is what often frustrates managers.

That said, the process is meant to be deliberate for good reason -- it protects employees from arbitrary managers, while also forcing companies to create a "paper trail" in the event of legal action. In this context, what we are talking about is Documentation.

Granted, Documentation often causes confusion and consternation among managers, but in reality, these would include such sources as:

* Job Descriptions
* Policy and Procedures Manuals
* Past Performance Appraisals
* Employee Handbooks
* Summaries of Counseling
* Oral and Written Warnings
* Feedback from others

Of these, the first four will normally exist as normal Management Communications Tools, while the next three are created as a result of a specific Employee Relations situation. These typically take the form of letters or memos, signed or acknowledged by the manager and the employee, and then placed in the employee’s Personnel File.

As far as documenting the problem or infraction, here are several tips to consider:

* Clearly identify the problem (Performance or Work Rules)
* Itemize how and where the employee is falling short of expectations.
* Prescribe a remedial course of action with time frames and benchmarks.
* Identify possible subsequent actions (final warnings, reprimands, docking of pay)
* Articulate the consequence of failure to rectify the situation. (suspension, termination)
* Solicit and include the employee’s input and reaction.
* Indicate a follow-up date.

It goes without saying that each of these actions should be applied consistently and in accordance with established policy.

Companies with a Human Resource Department will be able to guide managers through this process; however, businesses without a formal HR Department should consult with outside experts or appropriate Legal Counsel.

For additional information on this topic, there are many available desktop and online resources easily found with a quick Internet Search.

Related Links:

How To Document Employee Behavior

Employee Relations Documentation

Documenting Performance Issues

Dealing With Problem Employees


Jack

Internet Business - How to Control Our Website?

As a site owner, we must know the right way in controlling our website. Webcontrolling is very beneficial for a website manager. The benefit are, we know until what extent is our site is known by visitors, how do we determine our targeted audience, and knowing how the audience response on our website, whether they are interested in, helped, or comforted after visiting our website. There are several important points we have to consider and observe, when we decide to run a website, they are:

• Determine the right audience for our site.
• Determine the type of layout, which one is more suitable for the features and services that we provide on our website.
• Define the right and make sense of domain address that is suitable for our website.
• What product or service highlight what we have in our website?
• What are the advantages of our site compared to our competitors?
• Determine what benefits of our website customers we that they get after using the services that we provide on our website.
• When are we going to launch the site (look for the right moment to be launched to the internet).

The points above are an outline of how we control our website effectively and efficiently. For more details, please visit the resources that available at the link listed in the first paragraph.

Soma Technical Designer Foundations

Location: Fort Myers, Fl

Description:

POSITION OBJECTIVE:

Management of adopted product in the assigned product area from concept to final fit approval. Work closely with Senior Technical Designer to maintain consistency of fit and quality through technical written spec packages. Work with Senior Technical Designer to manage daily workload and driving T&A calendar. Ensure brand integrity throughout fit development process while keeping the customer in mind. Build and maintain strong communication with Merchant, Product Development production and Vendors. Work closely with Senior Technical Designer to continually broaden technical knowledge and to elevate the quality of the product.

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for a portion of or a large product classification while supporting the Sr. Technical Designer and Technical Coordinator as necessary.
• Independently analyze fit on a live model and clearly communicate fit and construction changes in an effective manner.
• Work with Sr. Technical Designer, Merchants and Product Development to establish the direction of the fit and garment details.
• Executes tech packs from concept to TOP of assigned and additional product classifications as directed. Inclusive of written comments on fit, construction and trims, digital photos and any other necessary information. Accuracy is essential.
• Communicates on a daily basis with Vendors, key Merchants and Design as it related to the T&A and execution of the product. Ability to stay on calendar.
• Properly preps for all fits.
• Assist other teams when workload is heavy within the department.
• Ability to travel internationally and to New York to conduct fittings.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4 year College Degree preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years bra/foundation technical design.
• Strong understanding of fit and construction in bras, panties and shapewear.
• Basic understanding of fabrics desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Web PDM or comparable, software com, computer literate including Excel/Word/RM/MicroGraphix / Illustrator / Photoshop

Self-motivated, creative problem solver


See website link to apply.

Posted by Stephanie Coronado

Assistant Designer JCB

Location: New York, NY
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: 40-45k

Description:

· Minimum of 1 year experience assistant / designer position, or extensive internships in the field while at school.
* Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Excel.
* Able to hand sketch.
* Experienced in preparing spec packs and creating garment or accessories specs.
* Organized, disciplined and timely.
* Ability to multi task and work in a team environment.

See website link to apply.

Posted by Stephanie Coronado

Transform your AdWords account and win cool prizes - sign up by October 3

There’s still time to sign up for the the AdWords Train & Gain challenge which kicks off October 4.

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Once signed up, you’ll receive four weeks of free advice for improving your AdWords account. At the end of the four weeks, you’ll have learned lots of different ways to improve your account performance. If you complete all the steps and answer a short questionnaire to let us know what you learned, you could win an Android Phone. Or even a free consultation with an AdWords expert — in Sydney, Australia.

Check out the Train & Gain site for more details about the challenge, who’s eligible to compete and how we’re selecting winners. Full terms and conditions can be found here.

Sign up for AdWords Train & Gain now

Posted by Gordon Zhu, Inside AdWords crew

Sample Room Manager

Location: Manhattan
Salary: 85k
Job Number 1924

Description:

Eveningwear/ bridal retailer is in search for a sampleroom manager. Manage multiple fittings with a staff of fitters at one time, must be technical knowledgeable in dresses, must be a people person. You will be dealing with the public on a daily bases. All fittings are done on customers not mannequins

See website link to apply.

Posted by Stephanie Coronado

Designer Assistant Runway

Location: Manhattan
Salary: 40-45k
Job number: 1935

Description:

We are currently seeking a Design Assistant for a Runway Contemporary client of ours. Looking for 1-2 years of experience and MUST MUST MUST have RUNWAY experience to be considered. Please send sketches along with resume.

I. Position Purpose To assist design team create, organize, and make collection.

II. Accountabilities/Responsibilities • Wovens - make finishing detail swatches, initial drape, design, concept, help creative and design director, senior designers when needed • Sunglasses - help design director in organizing inspiration, details, and making samples • Belts - design, drape/swatch, development, follow up • Hats - design, drape/swatch, development, follow up • Trims/Fabric - trim sourcing, making appointments, special developments (waistband curtain, embroidered name, etc) • Prints - print sourcing, contacting printmaker, development and follow up (shared by senior designer) • Embroideries - embroidery sourcing, placement, drape, sketches, development, follow up (shared by senior designer) • Flats - make flats for sales line sheet, keep sketch library in computer and book • Intern program - recruit, interview, and manage 3-5 seasonal assistants

III. Knowledge and Background Requirement Needed • Fashion design degree or equivalent in work experience • Knowledge of trends and trained fashion eye • Able to work well as a team and individually • Able to work under tight deadlines • Proficient in Photoshop and Illustrator software • Organizational skills and multitasking necessary

See link to apply.

Posted by Stephanie Coronado

Jessilyn Personnel Patternmaker-Handbags

Salary: 95K

Make original handbag samples from designer’s drawing and 

specifications. Prepare cutting die patterns and jigs for 

production. Provide technical support to the factories 

manufacturing these new styles. Enable Manufacturing Research 

and Development Center staff to produce patterns and 

prototyping samples of any possible construction and materials 

for our Trading Good Vendors. Accurately interpret designer’s 

sketches to develop patterns and prototypes/samples of world 

class quality with quick turnaround for the development of new 

product lines. Reduce the number of times a new style has to be 

remade. Improving communication with designers and reducing 

lead time. Contribute value-added engineering recommendations 

while maintaining the designer’s vision of new products. Check 

new dies and tooling for accuracy. Share knowledge, trouble-

shooting successes and other information to support the 

learning process within the team, the development of apprentice 

patternmakers and improve the overall quality of 

prototypes/samples. The scope of responsibility for this 

position includes developing patterns and prototypes/samples 

for all current and new handbag styles in a wide variety of 

materials (i.e., leather and/or fabric). Minimum 3 - 5 years 

experience in handbag patternmaking and product development 

processes. The ability to find creative, professional solutions 

to design and construction problems. Experience with both 

leather and man-made materials, lined and unlined. Ability to 

make the entire sample: cutting clickers, skivers, welting 

machines, embossing machines, folding machines, tablework, and 

stitching. Personal leather goods and accessories patternmaking 

experience very helpful. Knowledge of leather goods 

manufacturing equipment and custom configuration. Familiarity 

with standard industry materials and sources. Ability to make 

die-ready patterns and collaborate on new tooling concepts, if 

needed. Problem Solving, Decision Making & Work Relationship. 

Oral and written understanding of the English language helpful. 

Collaborative, team oriented and influence skills; ability to 

manage expectations. Must be able to perform efficiently within 

a high pressure, fast paced team environment. Highly detail 

oriented. Ability to interact directly with designers and 

product developers on new style samples. Partner with and 

support sample makers during sample assembly. Ability to 

trouble-shoot new style assembly procedures challenges with 

sample makers and to collaborate with manager on problem 

solving recommendations. 

Please send resumes as a Word Document.


Posted by Stephanie Coronado

What’s different about the new Google Docs: Working together, even apart

Earlier this year, we launched new editors for documents and spreadsheets on Google Docs, built on a code base designed to improve collaboration and take advantage of the latest advances in modern browsers. These applications support up to 50 simultaneous editors, and documents let you see other people’s changes character-by-character as they type.

This week we wanted to share a series of posts on the Google Docs blog that dive into the collaboration technology behind Google Docs. In the first post, we look at the challenges encountered when building a collaborative application. The second post describes how Google Docs uses an algorithm called operational transformation to merge edits in real time. Lastly, the we end the series with a deep dive into the collaboration protocol for sending changes between editors in a document. Together, these technologies create the character-by-character collaboration in Google Docs.

These improvements to Google Docs are designed to help businesses like yours move to the cloud faster and be more productive than ever before. If you've never tried our web-based documents, spreadsheets and presentations, you can instantly take a test drive at docs.google.com/demo.

Posted by John Day-Richter, Software Engineer

Learn AdSense optimization techniques with our new video series

Did you know that a simple change like enabling both text and image ads can boost your eCPM and revenue? Or that a 300x250 medium rectangle typically performs much better in terms of revenue than a 250x250 square? Or that widening an AdSense search box can double the number of queries performed on your site, leading to higher earnings? If you didn’t, don’t sweat it -- the AdSense team and I have come up with a list of six top optimization tips and best practices that can help you earn more quickly.

Many of our publishers’ sites and accounts aren’t fully optimized for AdSense, which means that they’re not earning as much as they potentially could. In these AdSense optimization videos, we walk you through some of the top optimization techniques and explain why they’re helpful in boosting your eCPM and revenue. Incorporating these techniques into your website and AdSense ad layout can help you monetize your traffic like never before!

In the six-part video series, we talk about how to:

1. Upgrade to high-performing units
2. Monetize more content
3. Optimize search box placement
4. Opt-in to text and image ads
5. Use link units
6. Opt-in to placement targeting

Even if you consider yourself an AdSense expert, you’ll probably learn a few new and exciting tips from this series. Take a look at the 'Upgrade to high-performing units' video below, check out all six videos on the official AdSense YouTube channel, and visit our optimization essentials center for more information.



Posted by Andrew Boni - AdSense Optimization team

How to Study in Higher Education?

Studying in college is very serious and need a high concentration. If you are someone who just joined the higher education, of course you really feel the differences between the ways you learn in Senior High School with College level. Learning materials at the college level is very heavy. However, you may also be assisted by tutors who are experienced in their fields especially for particular hard subjects. The tutoring services such as: 

1. Math help 
2. Math problems 
3. Homework help 
4. Algebra help 
5. Calculus help 
6. Physics help 

If me, when I study at college, I hire online tutors from Tutornext Company. I suggested the Tutornext for you, because they serve their customers very well, 24 hours a day, and they give cheapest rate.

Therefore, the correct way of learning for students, I will share an effective way of learning. Here are some suggestions from me. 

Some of the differences between college with senior high school: 

• Schedule of College Student is more irregular compared to Senior High School. Schedule of lectures much-perforated holes, sometimes there is a solid college days but there is also an empty day. 
• Must be more independent in learning, the material is not fed like in senior high school. 
• Freedom is higher. No one will scold you like in senior high school if, not doing chores, even there also not taking the exam. 
• Professors teach with variety of styles, not like teacher in senior high school. 
• The relationship between friends is not as tight senior high school. 

While some good tips on how to learn: 

• Read the material before the lecture (10-30 minutes is enough), then after college (also 10-30 minutes). Without reading it first, based on my research lecturers absorbed is only 50%. This model also enables us to repay study, not compacted the day before the lecture. 
• Understand the characteristics of the lecturer. Example: there are teachers who prefer the long answer, but some are more like brief but precise answers. Some allow students to come late, but there is also a very anti-etc. It is also important when taking a college choice, college would be more comfortable if the style fits students and lecturers. 
• Do not forget to organize and socialize. Social skills, leadership are an important capital at work later. Although a person get 4.0 of GPA, but if unable to work in teams will be useless. 
• The Last: enjoy and benefit from the short period. Lecture is the most fun in my opinion. Free to experiment, expression can still make mistakes with minimal risk and life is still borne by parents. After college, you will be required to work and independent. You will also deal with environmental to work harder than college. 

Google Apps Marketplace helps students’ minds thrive in the cloud

We started the Google Apps Marketplace with the goal of helping businesses find even more value in the cloud. Universities and schools are also moving aggressively into cloud computing for both internal infrastructure applications and apps for students. We have seen excellent uptake by education edition users of a wide range of apps, including Aviary, Manymoon, SlideRocket, SurveyMonkey, TripIt, OffiSync, and Sherpatools, just to name a few.

In addition to the many apps that have been used to enhance learning experiences, we recently introduced the first education-focused app, Grockit, to the marketplace. We are excited to see the demand for these types of apps grow and we hope to build on the momentum created by apps that have been helping schools move to the cloud. Here are just a few examples of how Marketplace apps are currently being used in the classroom:

SlideRocket - Platform for creating, managing, sharing and measuring presentations

“You can see the impact [of cloud-based learning] in a research project some students did with the Glacier National Park in Montana. Students started by gathering their data through “building tools” such as Google Docs. Then students used that cloud-based data to collaborate with peers inside of SlideRocket, building a coherent presentation from scattered sets of data. Finally, they used Google Earth to embed the SlideRocket presentation into a place marker within the park, giving everyone access to their work. With this advancement in edtech, students across the school can discover various geo-referenced SlideRocket presentations as they virtually fly around the globe, learning and providing feedback… teachers are constantly wow’ed by the new capabilities…”

- John Kuglin, Senior Tech Consultant & Former Associate Dean, Univ of Montana 

Manymoon - Team collaboration and project management application

“At Le Moyne College... class assignments, relevant media, documents, student discussions and papers are all posted on Manymoon... All e-mails, documents, links etc are in one place and easy to find... which saves lots of time for me and my students. Manymoon and Google Apps are useful for connecting my students with others in the wider community. This semester, for instance, my Le Moyne College students are using Manymoon to work with college and high school students on a Juvenile Justice Experiential Education collaboration which involves more than 200 students from local universities and high schools. This is made possible by Manymoon and the suite of Google Apps.”

-Jim Dessauer, Adjunct Associate Professor in Sociology at Le Moyne College

The introduction of Grockit is our most recent step to help schools and universities discover and deploy relevant applications from our marketplace. Grockit is a social learning platform for students in K-12 and for college entrance exams. They were eager to join the marketplace because of the 8 million students that currently use Google Apps. Through Grockit integrations with Apps, students can now easily access their Grockit account through the universal navigation bar, sync training sessions with Google Calendar and store critical documents in Google Docs.

"The response from School Administrators has been outstanding. Each day we are contacted by a new school that is thrilled Google has begun adding educational apps to the marketplace and they have access to Grockit’s learning platform through it. They are already asking how they can make Grockit available to their students beyond this school year. We are stoked that educators see the additional value they provide their students when they are able to combine the benefits of Google and Grockit together."

-Farb Nivi, Founder and CEO of Grockit

We are constantly seeking to bring applications that our customers want to the Marketplace, so help us out by suggesting apps you think would be good for the Marketplace. In the meantime, check out the Google Apps Marketplace and get your head in the cloud:

Aviary, Manymoon, SlideRocket, SurveyMonkey, TripIt, OffiSync, and Sherpatools

Posted by Harrison Shih, Google Apps Marketplace Team

Where to start?

Some of us have been doing lean-agile-scrum for awhile now. And we forget that others are just starting.

So, where does one start?

The first answer is that you start from where you are. One thing this means is that one starts with the impediments one has today. And you use Scrum to help tell you "what is the biggest impediment today?"

And there is always a biggest one today. And it is hard to predict what will be the biggest impediment tomorrow. So many different things can be slowing down the team. So many things can come up in an instant.

Is it useful to work on a less-important impediment? Well, yes, but not nearly as useful as working on the top impediment. THIS IS IMPORTANT. We should always be working on the top impediment (presuming that it can be improved, or that 'they' will allow us to fix it).

Why should you start Scrum? (This gets to the core issue of starting with right intention. As any good Buddhist would want us to.)

Well, some people want a work life that is more fun. Some want to get rid of a bad manager. (BTW, I think very very few managers are 'bad', although I do think lots of managers have been taught badly how to do their work.) Some want money. These are all good reasons.

But I think the best reasons are phrased a bit differently: To make my life better, to make our team's life better, to make our customers' lives better. You will note how that starts from the center and moves outward.

And it raises a fundamental question: what does it mean to make someone's life better? This is a difficult yet important question.

I think it is bigger than software. And I think that important words, like freedom, love and self-responsibility, are in there. And working as a team and at the same time fulfilling oneself as a person. Perhaps we may say a connectedness that that makes us more individuals rather than less. (I am in eastern europe (Romania) as I write.) We do not join a collective to lose our individuality, but rather, seemingly paradoxically, to become yet more our own individual selves within the team.

Within the dualisms we are used to thinking in, this sounds a paradox. But it is the truer organic reality.

Learning how to do this can be painful, but, as the song says, and as every mother knows, a deeper pleasure is on the other side. (See http://www.metrolyrics.com/save-room-lyrics-john-legend.html for the lyrics, if you are interested. Good song too.)

One team recently was going through this pain. One wondered how long it would take. One wondered "will they get to the other side?" Still, one has confidence that people learn from scraping their knees.

Network Marketing Prospecting -How to Use Webinars To Grow Your MLM

Today, when you are out doing your network marketing prospecting, one area you must keep up with is technology. By doing this, you business builders marketing plan will remain on the cutting edge.

In the following article, you will discover how utilizing webinars can be a great techy tool to grow your home business.

I encourage you to give it a shot!

To Your Success,
Monique Hawkins
540-858-2885
Skype: Monique371

PS: The real training begins by reading the eBook, Success In Ten Steps. In case you haven't had a chance to download it, click here: http://mentormonique.successin10steps.com/?mad=46068

New Trends - Network Marketing Webinars
By KC Gleaton

Share Your Plan With One Or One Thousand With A Webinar.

A webinar is simply an online seminar. You upload your marketing presentation to the Webinar Company server and let technology take care of the rest! Webinar Marketing System allows you to show everyone in attendance your PowerPoint presentation, but seeing the presentation is only part of the sales process because your prospects get to hear it as well, while you provide them with files or examples to download and links to take action. Now, imagine being able to do ALL of this while at the beach, on the slopes or on vacation with the family. Well, some webinar systems will allow you to do just that.

Some webinar systems will allow you to upload an entire presentation and schedule it as though it was a live webinar, thus allowing you to duplicate yourself and multiply your business income. Webinar providers give you a few options. You can use their entry level meeting package for small meetings of up to twenty five people, up to the full blown webinar package for up to one thousand attendees. This gives you lots of flexibility Now here is the great thing.

Most webinar providers will also include with your full blown webinar package, their smaller entry level meeting options as well. So how does this build your business? Let's take the traditional one on one. You (or you and your sponsor) call your prospect. They want to learn more. You email them a link for an online meeting. They click on a link, connect to the server, and now they see your presentation in all its glory.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: One Touch Webinar: http://www.onetouchwebinars.com

K.C. Gleaton, the company founder, wants to help you become an expert in your niche by sharing his extensive knowledge, experience and skill sets with you through this webinar marketing system.

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